Submitted on Friday 24th June 2016
Rejected on Friday 1st July 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
UK to join the EEA or a bilateral economic agreement similar to Switzerland-EU.
The European Economic Area (EEA) is the area in which the Agreement on the EEA provides for the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital within the internal market of the European Union (EU).
Switzerland and the EU signed seven bilateral agreements, of which the most important related to civil aviation, free movement of persons, overland transport and technical barriers to trade.
In addition we would like the UK government to please consider opting out of the Schengen Area.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The UK is currently a member of the EEA, see this link:
www.gov.uk/eu-eea
It is not currently a member of the Schengen area, see this link:
http://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-countries-list/
We are not able to accept duplicate petitions that request the same action to be taken, and we already have a petition asking for the UK to remain a member of the EEA, which you might like to sign. The link can be found here:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/135917
If you wish to start a petition detailing a single, specific action for the Government and/or Parliament to take, we would, of course, be happy to consider it.
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